From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ispell single word Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:27:47 +0100 Message-ID: <86ftsmgqq4.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86sgwmholz.fsf@zoho.eu> <83lg2el99e.fsf@gnu.org> <86k1hygyne.fsf@zoho.eu> <83bm3akzt3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="105557"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 17 20:28:56 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gvS7T-000RK2-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:28:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvS7S-0003Le-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvS6a-0003LV-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:28:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvS6Z-00027m-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:28:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48546 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gvS6X-000258-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:27:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gvS6T-000Q5T-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:27:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:045MOwj01L4BW9xhomzKji/yPgc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233433 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> The base use case is being able to ask >> Emacs, is this the correct spelling of >> a particular word? > > Type it and then invoke "M-$". Boy, ispell really does stink it can't do this programmatically. Well, at least mine can, altho in an intricate, reversed way which doesn't seem sound or natural. It is a small wonder, in an ironic way, that this isn't one of the first - if not *the* first - building block around which the whole software is made! BTW who needs `+' to do addition in Lisp? (+ 1 2 3) and such? When everyone knows it is much more convenient to read the digits from a buffer? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573